Nortel BCM50 User manual

Part No. N0025637 01

December 2, 2004

Call Center

Telephone Administration

Guide

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Call Center

Telephone Administration Guide

The information in this document is subject to change without notice. The statements, configurations, technical data, and

recommendations in this document are believed to be accurate and reliable, but are presented without express or implied warranty.

Users must take full responsibility for their applications of any products specified in this document. The information in this

document is proprietary to Nortel Networks NA Inc.

The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms

of that license. The software license agreement is included in this document.

Trademarks

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All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Contents

Chapter 1

About Call Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

What Call Center includes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

What you can administer through a telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

How to get help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Chapter 2

About Call Center telephone administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Setting up Call Center with a two line display telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

System timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Using the dialpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Symbols and conventions used in this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About telephone buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Feature codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Programming a memory button with a Feature Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Feature Codes used by Call Center Administrators and supervisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Feature Codes used by Call Center agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Agent Feature Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Chapter 3

Call Center general properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Enabling the Call Center software authorization code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Setting Call Center general properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Primary and Secondary alert times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Reserved channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Setting Caller ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Setting the Supervisor Help request timeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Selecting skillsets supervisors can receive help requests from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Configuring lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting the Answer Lines status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Resetting the Call Center Administrator password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Chapter 4

Call Center greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

About Call Center greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Types of Call Center greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Recording a Call Center greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Setting up skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

About skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

How incoming calls are sent to a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Skillset properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Setting up a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Enabling a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Disabling a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Changing skillset properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Unconfiguring a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Chapter 6

Setting up skillset mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

About skillset mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Determining a skillset mailbox number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Checking which telephone mailbox interface you use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Initializing a skillset mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Opening a skillset mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Opening a skillset mailbox remotely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Skillset mailbox password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Changing a skillset mailbox password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Resetting a skillset mailbox password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Recording skillset mailbox greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Examples of Primary and Alternate greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Choosing a Primary or Alternate skillset mailbox greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Recording a Personalized skillset mailbox greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Deleting a Personalized mailbox greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Checking skillset mailboxes for messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Playing skillset mailbox messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Retrieving erased messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Replying to messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Replying to an internal caller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using the Reply feature to reply to an external caller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Chapter 7

Off-premise Message Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

About Off-premise Message Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Assigning an outdial method to a skillset mailbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Off-premise Message Notification parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Setting up Off-premise Message Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

About setting up Off-premise Message Notification to a pager number . . . . . . . . 84

Changing Off-premise Message Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Deleting a destination number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Adding a destination number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Turning Off-premise Message Notification on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Chapter 8

Setting up agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

About adding agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Agent properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Adding an agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Changing an agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Adding multiple agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Assigning an agent to a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Assigning several agents to a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Removing agents from a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Viewing agents in a skillset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Logging an agent off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Deleting an agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Resetting an agent password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Chapter 9

Intelligent Overflow Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Examples of Intelligent Overflow Routing rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Adding Overflow rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Changing and viewing Overflow rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Deleting Overflow rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Chapter 10

Routing table administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Setting up DID routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Fax Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

About types of Routing Table steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Adding a Greeting step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Greeting step parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adding a Distribute for step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Adding a Goto step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Adding a Transfer step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Adding a Disconnect step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Example of a Day Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Example of a Night Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Changing a routing table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Reviewing Routing Table steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Modifying Routing Table steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Erasing a Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Setting the Service Modes for skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

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Monitoring call activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Monitoring agent calls with Silent Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Setting up Silent Monitor on your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Using Silent Monitor with Answer DN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Monitoring tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Monitoring skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

To monitor skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

An example of monitoring skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Using a memory button to monitor calls waiting in skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Taking some Not Ready time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using Not Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Programming Not Ready to a memory button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Logging off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Changing your password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Supervisor Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

How Supervisor Help works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Configuring Supervisor Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

How to handle Supervisor help requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

How to handle missed requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

An example of retrieving an escalated request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Chapter 12

Tips for operating Call Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Agent administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Skillset administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Call Center greetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Routing Table administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Call Center general parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

How to calculate the longest time a caller can be on hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Tips to improve the efficiency of Call Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Chapter 13

Troubleshooting Call Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Resetting passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Resetting the Operator password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Agent problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Agent log on problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Important considerations about how agents use features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Skillset problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Problems changing skillset properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

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Call Center Programming Record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Feature Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

General Call Center parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Operator/Business Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Call Center skillsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Call Center agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Skillset assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Skillset mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Routing Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Line answering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

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Chapter 1

About Call Center

This guide leads a Call Center Administrator through setting up and operating Call Center on a

CallPilot 100/150 or BCM50 system. You can program Call Center using any two-line display

telephone on your telephone system. You can also use the web-based CallPilot Manager to set up

and operate Call Center.

Call Center is an application that handles incoming calls as efficiently and economically as

possible. Call Center answers calls, then routes the calls to agents in a skillset that most closely

matches the needs of the caller. Calls can be routed based on the origin of the call, the destination

of the call, or the information entered by the caller. Callers can be given high or low priorities.

Callers can overflow to different groups or skillsets of agents, transfer out of the system, leave a

message, and hear announcements and informative messages.

For information about Call Center features, refer to the Call Center Set Up and Operation Guide.

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What Call Center includes

You can use Enhanced or Basic Call Center on CallPilot. Basic Call Center is available for

BCM50.

Features Basic Call Center Enhanced Call Center

Skillsets 2 30

Overflow skillsets 1 29

Configured agents (available agent IDs) 20 100

Agent priority levels 20

Active agents 10 Enhanced: max 50, min 20

Active calls in all skillsets 15 48

Maximum active calls per skillset 15 48

Lines that can be configured for Call

Center

15 30

Voice ports (shared with CallPilot or

dedicated)

8

(You can have an additional 8 for CallPilot if you have 2 CallPilots

on 1 KSU)

Routing tables per skillset 2

Greetings 30 50

Steps per routing table 20

Skillset mailboxes 2 30

Supervisors 10 16

Supervisor functionality, including call

monitoring

Silent is available only if a MICS 7.0 or later KSU is used.

Otherwise, muted mode is available. Only one mode is available

at a time, so if silent monitor is available, muted monitor is not.

Maximum simultaneous monitoring

sessions

6

Day of Week Service: you specify the

start times for the day and night skillset

for each day of the week

Available

Limited Feature 983 telephone

administration

Available

Supervisor Help Available with Silent Monitor. Not supported with Muted Monitor.

Expected Wait Time 5 tables 20 tables

Activity Codes 2,000 entries

Dynamic agent priority levels Not available 20

Caller Input Tables Not available 30

CallPilot Manager Available

Call Center Reporting

Enabled with optional Software

Authorization Code

Included

Dynamic call priority levels Not available 20

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Overflow rules per skillset 20 20

Basic Intelligent Caller Input Routing:

the ability to route a call to an Operator,

Auto Attendant, skillset mailbox, CCR

Tree or internal or external number

Available

Advanced Intelligent Caller Input

Routing: the ability to route a call based

on multi-digit fixed or variable strings

Not available Available

Delegated Call Center Administration:

the System Administrator can create a

password to give a Call Center

Administrator or supervisor access to

Call Center administration.

Available

Intelligent Overflow Routing: rules you

create to overflow, change the priority of,

and move calls to multiple skillsets, a

skillset mailbox, an internal or external

number, a mailbox, the Auto Attendant

or an operator.

Available

Intelligent CLID/DNIS Routing Not available Available

Overflow rules per skillset 20

Service Mode: you specify the start and

end times for the day and night skillset

for each day of the week

Available

Features Basic Call Center Enhanced Call Center

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What you can administer through a telephone

Call Center properties

Software authorization code

“Enabling the Call Center software authorization code” on

page 23

Primary and Secondary Alert times “Primary and Secondary alert times” on page 25

Reserved Channels “Reserved channels” on page 26

Supervisor Help “Setting the Supervisor Help request timeout” on page 28

“Selecting skillsets supervisors can receive help requests

from” on page 28

Caller ID display settings “Setting Caller ID” on page 27

Lines “Configuring lines” on page 29

Answer lines status “Setting the Answer Lines status” on page 31

Reset Administrator password “Resetting the Call Center Administrator password” on page

32

Call Center greetings “Recording a Call Center greeting” on page 36

NOTE: You must use CallPilot Manager to add Greeting

captions.

Skillsets

Parameters: name, number, control DN,

Message Waiting Indicator DN, Method of

Distribution, Break Time, Delay Answer,

Activity Code and Expected Wait Time

settings, service mode, prompt language,

attendant extension.

Monitor skillsets

“Setting up a skillset” on page 43

“Setting the Service Modes for skillsets” on page 148

“Monitoring skillsets” on page 154

NOTE: you must use CallPilot Manager to set up Caller Input

Rules and Expected Wait Time and Activity Code tables.

Skillset mailboxes

initialize a skillset mailbox

change a skillset mailbox password

record skillset mailbox greetings

play skillset mailbox messages

“About skillset mailboxes” on page 55

“Initializing a skillset mailbox” on page 58

“Skillset mailbox password” on page 61

“Recording skillset mailbox greetings” on page 63

“Playing skillset mailbox messages” on page 70

Off-premise message notification “About Off-premise Message Notification” on page 77

Agents

Agent ID, name, supervisor, automatic

answer, missed call options, priority, Activity

Code entry type

“Adding an agent” on page 102

Assign agents to skillsets “Assigning an agent to a skillset” on page 107

Log an agent off “Logging an agent off” on page 111

Reset an agent password “Resetting an agent password” on page 113

Monitor agents

“Monitoring agent calls with Silent Monitor” on page 151

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Related documents

For more information about Call Center refer to the:

• Nortel Networks Call Center Set Up and Operation Guide

• Nortel Networks Call Center Agent Guide

• Nortel Networks Call Center Supervisor Guide

• Nortel Networks Call Center Reporting Set Up and Operation Guide

For information about setting up CallPilot refer to the:

• CallPilot Manager Set Up and Operation Guide

• CallPilot Telephone Administration Guide

• CallPilot 100/150 Installation and Maintenance Guide

For information about configuring telephony resources, refer to the:

• Norstar System Coordinator Guide

Routing

Intelligent Overflow Routing “Adding Overflow rules” on page 122

Greeting step

Distribute for step

Goto step

Transfer step

Disconnect step

“Adding a Greeting step” on page 130

“Adding a Distribute for step” on page 134

“Adding a Goto step” on page 135

“Adding a Transfer step” on page 136

“Adding a Disconnect step” on page 138

Expected Wait Time tables NOTE: You must use CallPilot Manager. You cannot

administer EWT Tables via telephone.

Activity Codes NOTE: You must use CallPilot Manager. You cannot

administer Activity Codes via telephone.

Caller Input Rule Tables NOTE: You must use CallPilot Manager. You cannot

administer Caller Input Rule Tables via telephone.

Advanced Intelligent Caller Input Routing NOTE: You must use CallPilot Manager. You cannot

administer Advanced Intelligent Caller Input Routing via

telephone.

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How to get help

USA and Canada

Authorized Distributors - ITAS Technical Support

Telephone:

1-800-4NORTEL (1-800-466-7835)

If you already have a PIN Code, you can enter Express Routing Code (ERC) 196#.

If you do not yet have a PIN Code, or for general questions and first line support, you can enter

ERC 338#.

Website:

http://www.nortelnetworks.com/itas/

email:

naitas@nortelnetworks.com

Presales Support (CSAN)

Telephone:

1-800-4NORTEL (1-800-466-7835)

Use Express Routing Code (ERC) 1063#

EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)

Technical Support - CTAS

Telephone:

00800 800 89009

Fax:

44-191-555-7980

email:

emeahelp@nortelnetworks.com

CALA (Caribbean & Latin America)

Technical Support - CTAS

Telephone:

1-954-858-7777

email:

csrmgmt@nortelnetworks.com

APAC (Asia Pacific)

Technical Support - CTAS

Telephone:

+61 388664627

Fax:

+61 388664644

• email:

asia_support@nortelnetworks.com

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Call Center Telephone Administration Guide

Chapter 2

About Call Center telephone administration

Setting up Call Center with a two line display telephone

You cannot use a single line display telephone to set up and administer Call Center. You must use

a two line display telephone. Two line display telephones show Call Center commands and

options. A two line display can show up to three display options at once. In some instances, an

option does not have a corresponding display button, and you must select the option by pressing

buttons on the diapad.

An example of a two line display

System timeout

If you pause longer than 2 minutes (120 seconds) when you program Call Center on a two line

display telephone, the system times out and ends the session. This is a safety feature that prevents

unauthorized use of the system.

For example, if the system times out before you enter all the settings for a skillset, you must use

the procedures in “Changing skillset properties” on page 49 to finish setting up the skillset.

Skillset 1: Enabled

SKILL NEXT

Display command line

Display button options

Display buttons

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Using the dialpad

The buttons on your display telephone dialpad act as both numbers and letters. Each button

represents a number and letters of the alphabet.

Numbers and letters on the dialpad.

The display can show up to 16 characters. Whether the prompt remains on the display depends on

the type of prompt that is displayed.

The prompt disappears for these command line prompts:

•Name:

•Log:

•Dest ph:

To enter a character

press the dialpad button that represents the letter or number. Press the

button again to see the next letter or number.

To accept a character

press

£ or press another button. When you press another button, the

cursor advances and the display shows the first character on the new

button.

To delete a character

press the BKSP display button.

⁄ 1 ’ - ¤ A B C 2 a b c ‹ D E F 3 d e f

› G H I 4 g h i ﬁ J K L 5 j k l ﬂ M N O 6 m n o

‡ P Q R S 7 p q r s ° T U V 8 t u v · W X Y Z 9 w x y z

• Quit ‚ Q Z Zero q z £ Accepts the displayed letter and “,”

(comma)

This is an example of a display with fewer than 16 characters, where

the command line prompt remains on the display.

This display shows the Name: command line prompt.

When you begin to enter the last name, the Name: command line

prompt disappears. For example, if you enter the name Partridge, you

press the pad ‡ for P, and the display drops the Name: prompt.

Although the name is only nine characters long, the command line

prompt is not shown on the display after you enter the entire name.

Pswd:1111

OTHR RETRY OK

Name:

RETRY BKSP OK

P

RETRY BKSP OK

PARTRIDGE

RETRY BKSP OK

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Symbols and conventions used in this guide

These conventions and symbols are used to represent the Business Series Terminal display and

dialpad.

About telephone buttons

This table shows the Nortel Networks Business Series Terminal buttons. Use the buttons that

pertain to the type of telephone you use.

You can enter ≤, ƒ or F

x

and the code to use a feature. For example, press

≤·°⁄ to access your mailbox.

The T7100 works differently from other telephones on your system because it does not have line

buttons. Where other telephones require that you select a line button to answer a call, on the T7100

terminal you pick up the handset. Where other telephones require you to select a line button to take

a call off hold, you press ≥ on the T7100 terminal.

On T7100 terminals, you can answer a second call by pressing ≥. Your active call is put on hold

and you connect to the waiting call. You can have no more than two active calls at one time.

Convention Example Used for

Word in a special font (in the top

line of the display)

Pswd: Command line prompts on display telephones.

Underlined word in capital letters

(on the bottom line of a two line

display telephone)

PLAY Display option. Available on two line display

telephones

. Press the button directly below the

option on the display to proceed.

Dialpad buttons

£

Buttons you press on the dialpad to select a

particular option.

Button name T7100, T7208, T7316

M7100, M7208, M7310,

M7324

M7100N, M7208N,

M7310N, M7324N

Feature

≤ ƒ F

x

Handsfree Bottom right-hand

button

©

Hold

≥ ˙ ≥

Volume Control

√ √

Release

® ® ®

-<<< >>>+

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Feature codes

You use Feature Codes to perform Call Center functions on your telephone.

Feature Codes are assigned during installation. This guide shows the default Feature Codes. Call

Center can also use custom Feature Codes. If the default Feature Codes are used by another

application, your system automatically assigns custom Feature Codes. If your System

Administrator has assigned custom Feature Codes, you can use the table “Feature Codes” on page

172 to record the Custom Feature Codes.

To determine the Feature Codes

1 Press ≤·•⁄.

2 The display shows the name and number of the Log In/Log Out

Feature Code. xx represents a number between 00 and 99.

3 Press NEXT

.

4 The display shows the name and number of the Ready Mode Feature

Code.

5 Press NEXT

to see more Feature Codes.

6 When the display shows QUIT

you have seen all the Feature Codes.

7 Press ® to end the session.

Login/out: F9xx

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Programming a memory button with a Feature Code

Each Feature Code can be programmed to a memory button. We recommend that you use memory

buttons with indicators to program the Feature Codes. A memory button indicator is the triangle

next to a memory button.

You can use memory buttons to monitor call activity, and view the Login/Logout and Not Ready

status of agents. For information about how the status appears, refer to the Nortel Networks Call

Center Agent Guide.

For information about using programmed memory buttons to monitor call activity, refer to

“Primary and Secondary alert times” on page 25.

To program a memory button

Use the paper labels that come with your telephone to identify the programmed button. To use the

Feature Code, press the labeled button.

1 Press ≤•‹.

Do not lift your handset.

2 The display shows Program Features.

3 Press a memory button with an LCD indicator.

4 Press ≤.

5 Enter the Feature Code number that you want to program.

For example, enter ·‚· to program the Display Waiting Calls

Feature Code. See the tables “Feature Codes used by Call Center

agents” on page 21 and “Agent Feature Codes” on page 21 for the

Feature Codes.

Repeat steps 1 through 5 for each Feature Code you want to

program.

6 The display shows that the button is programmed, and then ends the

session.

Program Features

Press a button

QUIT

Feature Code:

QUIT

F__

QUIT CLEAR

Programmed

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Feature Codes used by Call Center Administrators and

supervisors

Use this Feature Code To...

Open Mailbox

≤ ·°⁄

• open skillset mailboxes

• record skillset mailbox greetings

• listen to messages in the skillset mailbox

Operator Settings

≤ ·°¤

• set or change the operator extension

• indicate whether the operator is available

• select the day and night service modes for skillsets

• change the password for Operator Settings

For more information on using the Operator Feature Code, refer to “Setting the

Service Modes for skillsets” on page 148 and “Resetting the Operator password”

on page 167.

Voicemail DN

≤ ·°ﬁ

• display the skillset mailbox number (Control DN) for each skillset

• display the extension for Message Waiting Indication for the skillset mailbox

• reset the passwords of the Call Center Administrator and the operator

For information on the Control DN, refer to “Determining a skillset mailbox

number” on page 56.

For information on resetting the Operator and Call Center Administrator

passwords, refer to “Resetting the Call Center Administrator password” on page

32 and “Resetting the Operator password” on page 167.

Display Waiting Calls

Skillset Status

≤ ·‚·

• view real-time status information about skillsets. You can see how busy your

call center is so that you can adjust skillset staffing

• view whether a skillset is enabled or disabled

• view the number of agents logged on to the skillset

• view the number of calls waiting

• view the longest wait time of a call

To provide easy, one-button access to the this feature, program a memory button

that has an indicator with ≤ ·‚·.

Refer to “Programming a memory button with a Feature Code” on page 19.

Log on/Log off

≤·‚›

• log agents off if they forget to log off.

For information, refer to “Logging an agent off” on page 111.

Monitor agents

≤·‚ﬁ

• lets you monitor agents

Supervisor Help

≤·‚ﬂ

• lets you take agents’ help requests

Not Ready

≤·‚°

• extend a Break Time period if agents need time after calls to do paperwork or

wrap up tasks. For more information about Break Time properties for a

skillset, refer to “Break Time” on page 41.

Note: You can use The Log on/Log off and the Not Ready Feature Codes, but they are used

primarily by agents. For information on the Feature Codes used by agents, refer to “Feature

Codes used by Call Center agents” on page 21.

Note: While you use a feature, if you press the Feature ≤ button your present feature session

ends. Do not press ≤ unless you want to end your current feature session.

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